David Cronenberg's The brood

DVD - 2015

A disturbed woman is receiving a radical form of psychotherapy at a remote, mysterious institute. Meanwhile, her five-year-old daughter, under the care of her estranged husband, is being terrorized by a group of demonic beings. How these two storylines connect is the shocking and grotesque secret of this bloody tale of monstrous parenthood.

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Subjects
Genres
Feature films
Fiction films
Horror films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Published
[Irvington, NY] : The Criterion Collection [2015]
Language
English
Other Authors
David Cronenberg, 1943- (film director), Pierre David, 1944- (film producer), Victor Solnicki, Claude Héroux
Item Description
DVD release of the 1979 motion picture.
Widescreen (1.78:1).
Special features: Disc 1: Radio spot. Disc 2: Birth pains (2015 documentary, actor Samantha Eggar, executive producer Pierre David, cinematographer Mark Irwin, assistant director, John Board, and special makeup effects artists Rick Baker and Joe Blasco discuss director David Cronenberg's early work and the making of the film); Oliver Reed (episode of the Merv Griffin Show from April 25, 1980, features actor Oliver Reed along with director Orson Welles and entertainer Charo); Meet the Carveths (2013 interview, Fangoria editor in chief Chris Alexander talks to actors Art Hindle and Cindy Hinds about the film); Crimes of the future: Crimes of the future (1970 ; 63 min.), Cronenberg: the early years (2011 interview, conducted by Fangoria editor in chief Chris Alexander, in which the director discusses his transition in filmmaking ; 13 min.). Insert includes an essay by critic Carrie Rickey.
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Format
DVD ; NTSC, region 1 ; widescreen (1.78:1) presentation ; Dolby digital mono.
Audience
MPAA rating: R.
Production Credits
Art director, Carol Spier ; editor, Alan Collins ; director of photography, Mark Irwin ; music, Howard Shore.
Crimes of the future: photographed and edited by David Cronenberg.
Cronenberg: the early years: director of photography, Michael Jari Davidson ; editor, Tod Corman.
ISBN
9781681430614
  • Crimes of the future / Emergent Films presents a film by David Cronenberg ; written, produced and directed by David Cronenberg
  • Cronenberg: the early years / a Severin Films presentation for Second Sight Films.
Review by Library Journal Review

Frank Carveth (Art Hindle) notices that his daughter shows signs of abuse after her regular weekend visit with her mother, Nola (Samantha Eggar), who is otherwise in isolation under the care of radical therapist Dr. Hal Raglan (Oliver Reed). The doctor is noted for psychoplasmics, a therapy that sees patients manifest their emotional trauma physically for a lasting recovery. Investigating his wife and Raglan's controversial therapies in order to gain full custody of his daughter, Frank uncovers an increasingly violent and mysterious force that kills people who are trying to aid him. Meanwhile, Nola is making real breakthroughs but with heavy costs. Cronenberg's 1979 classic combines a family going through a divorce with the outer edges of envelope-pushing psychotherapy and the specter of familial abuse. The result is a horror film that touches on emotions and experiences strongly rooted in everyday experience. VERDICT This tautly realistic, expertly acted approach makes the experimental treatments plausible, the repression-spawned and murderous Brood credible, and the fright generated especially effective.-Douglas Rednour, Georgia State Univ. Libs., Atlanta © Copyright 2016. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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